Thomas Wilkinson, M.F.H., with the Hurworth Foxhounds
Date:
1846
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
58 x 95 inches (147.3 x 241.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed, lower right: "[....] | [....]"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.289
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
black | portrait | men | horses (animals) | fields (agricultural land) | sporting art | dogs (animals) | brown
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Sojourn at Home: Sporting Paintings from the Paul Mellon Bequest at the Yale Center for British Art (National Sporting Library and Museum, 2002-10-04 - 2003-03-28)This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05)This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06)This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15)
Publications:
Arthur Ackermann & Son Ltd., The Annual Exhibition of Fine English Sporting Paintings, 1966, no. 1, DealerCat (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 94-95, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 249-50, no. 270, pl. 91, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Roger Longrigg, The history of foxhunting, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., New York, 1975, p. 104, SK285 L6 1975 + Oversize (YCBA)Julia Marciari-Alexander, This other Eden : Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1998, p. 128, no. 51, ND1314.3 Y36 1998 (YCBA)Major Guy Paget, Melton Mowbray of John Ferneley, 1782-1860 , Edgar Backus, Leicester, 1931, p. 150, NJ18 F3845 P25 1931 (YCBA)Graham Reynolds, Posing on Four Legs, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, Issue No. 4072, April 17, 1981, p. 445, Film S748 (SML) Also Available OnLine in TLS Historical Archive (ORBIS)
Gallery Label:
Thomas Wilkinson sits astride his bay horse in full and unchallenged supremacy as Master of Foxhounds (MFH) for the Hurworth Hounds, a pack in County Durham that his uncle founded in the late eighteenth century. The title of MFH was held in rotation among the members and was the most senior position, responsible both for the kennels and for leading the hunt in the field. John Ferneley’s painting was commissioned by fellow members of the Hurworth Hounds and presented to Wilkinson as a gift. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016